The Government of Belize today confirmed what the Opposition announced yesterday: that is, the impending sale of majority ownership of Belize Telecommunications Limited. According to a release today from the Government Press Office, Michael Ashcroft’s Carlisle Group has agreed to sell its fifty-two point four-six percent interest in B.T.L. for a price of fifty-two million […]
Police have detained a Belize City man accused of shooting twenty-seven year old Alex O’Brien on Wednesday afternoon. The motive for the shooting is not altogether clear, but it appears to have been the result of an old beef. The shooter, a man in his early twenties, is expected to be charged with the crime […]
While police appear to have solved the O’Brien shooting, they are trying to catch up with the perpetrators of a series of armed robberies last night. The spree started on Church Street around six-thirty when police say two men held up sixteen year old Ceferino Salam. The teenager told police that one of the men […]
And finally in crime news, police have taken two more deadly weapons out of circulation. A search of the home of fifty-five year old boxing instructor David Dakers on Tuesday evening yielded a point three-eighty automatic pistol along with six live rounds. On Wednesday morning a similar operation at the home of forty-seven year old […]
A team of officials from the Institute of Archaeology is set to start salvaging work at a small Mayan site in Benque Viejo del Carmen that was bulldozed on Tuesday afternoon. But even as work begins, there is still confusion over exactly how property owner Francisco Miranda obtained title to the land that is clearly […]
On Friday, the nation’s primary schools will be closing for Christmas… so you might think a truancy workshop held today would have been a lost cause. But organizers say they are taking the necessary steps to ensure that when school reopens in January, there will be significantly more students at their desks. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
It’s a little known programme with big bucks to assist business people in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific block of nations. And today PROINVEST, through its local counterpart, the Belize Chamber of Commerce, hosted a seminar to explain to local entrepreneurs how to access the project’s money. According to the Chamber’s Director of Membership Services, […]
2003 is not yet history, but one sporting organisation has already made its selection for the record books. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Fiona Humes-Gonzalez, Top Female Cyclist “It was rough, but looking at the cheque and the recognition I have received, it was worth it and I planned to work harder next […]
It was originally scheduled to take place on November twenty-eighth but due to inclement weather the annual Mr. Nice Guy pageant had to be postponed. But keep your fingers crossed as it looks like the weather will hold up long enough for the staff and students of Anglican Cathedral College to go ahead with the […]
Once upon a time–and it was not that long ago–Belize’s sole maritime protected area was a tiny patch of sea surrounding Half Moon Caye. Today it’s a different story, with nearly a dozen marine reserves covering large areas of the cayes, reefs, and atolls. Yesterday News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for a major […]
